Best Thriller Games on Steam
Games built around suspense, danger, twists, pursuit, and rising tension.
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1Phasmophobia - Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Sep 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- use your real voice to taunt a ghost, and it can hunt you for what you say.
- ask a ghost questions, hear it answer "close" and "die," then get strangled while your friends photograph the body for cash.
- trigger a cursed item that starts a deadly round of hide-and-seek while you listen from a hiding spot.
- insult a ghost inside the house, and it can instantly lock the door and start hunting your teammate.
- sit in the truck watching cameras and sensors while your friends investigate inside and try not to get hunted.
- take a photo of a ghost standing over a collapsing teammate, and sell that death moment as mission-paying evidence.
- watch a ghost ignore everyone else during a hunt, beeline to the basement to stare at you, then walk away.
2Firewatch - Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Feb 9, 2016
In this game, you can…
- walk into a remote research outpost and find transcripts of your private radio conversations already written down.
- follow a strange lake signal to a hidden site, get knocked out, and wake up to a mystery that suddenly feels personal.
- start by making life-defining choices in a text-only prologue before you ever step into the woods.
- live alone in a lookout tower and build your only relationship through a handheld radio.
- navigate a massive wilderness with just a map and compass, using landmarks like you're actually hiking.
- inspect random objects you find and radio them in to spark custom conversations that change the tone between you two.
- arrive at that research site and then watch it burn, leaving you wondering if you're being set up for the fires.
- spend hours expecting a huge conspiracy payoff, then end on a short, awkward goodbye and a straight evacuation.
3Alan Wake - A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
Feb 16, 2012
In this game, you can…
- burn away an enemy's darkness shield with your flashlight before you can hurt them with a gun
- read manuscript pages you don't remember writing, then watch those exact events play out later in the world
- shoot monsters on a concert stage while a full song blasts through the speakers mid-fight
- recover health by reaching a bright streetlight that turns into a safe zone enemies won't enter
- start generators and other machines while enemies close in, using light to buy just enough time to finish the task
- get ambushed by flying axes and other thrown weapons while you scramble toward the next patch of light
- play through a TV-season structure with episode recaps, cliffhangers, and end-of-episode songs
4Little Nightmares II - Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.
Feb 10, 2021
In this game, you can…
- call out to your partner, hear her answer, and hold hands as you move together through dangerous areas.
- enter televisions and travel through the Signal, moving deeper toward whatever is broadcasting it.
- wake up alone in a forest of burned-out televisions, dodge traps, and find a girl locked in a basement with only a music box.
- team up to open hidden trapdoors, climb oversized furniture, and solve puzzles built around staying close as two kids.
- sneak through schools and cabins while gigantic adults patrol, and getting spotted immediately turns it into a chase.
- grab whatever you can reach and swing it to fend off an enemy, where one mistimed hit can end the fight fast.
- face set-piece encounters with warped residents like the Teacher and the Hunter, built around stalking, hiding, and sudden escapes.
- reach an ending that flips the story in a single, shocking turn and recontextualizes what you've been doing.
5The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered - Experience the winner of over 300 Game of the Year awards, now on PC. Discover Ellie and Abby’s story with graphical enhancements, gameplay modes like the roguelike survival experience No Return, and more.
Apr 3, 2025
In this game, you can…
- throw a bottle to lure clickers into a human firefight, then sneak past while both sides tear into each other.
- free-play the guitar whenever you want, messing with chords and melodies like a little playable instrument.
- trigger the story to flip perspectives hard: reach a big confrontation, then spend hours playing the other side leading up to it.
- play randomized survival runs where you pick your route through encounters as different unlockable characters, building toward boss fights in familiar locations.
- go prone and crawl through tall grass, squeeze through tight gaps, then pop up to dodge and brawl your way out.
- craft a pistol silencer and pair it with a bow to quietly drop enemies, then vanish before anyone finds your last position.
- have enemies remember where they last saw you, search that spot, and keep hunting the area instead of forgetting you.
- fight alongside allies who sync stealth takedowns with you instead of just watching, turning ambushes into coordinated team kills.
6Firework - An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.
Feb 3, 2021
In this game, you can…
- reopen a closed massacre case when a funeral coffin catches fire.
- talk to the dead to pull out hidden memories that advance your investigation.
- watch the world abruptly shift between reality, remembered scenes, and the realm of the dead as you chase clues.
- follow a routine murder inquiry in a mountain village until you're uncovering each victim's past life, one by one.
- reconstruct what happened to a family from scattered clues, only for the presumed murder-suicide to collapse into a different tragedy.
- stumble into a nasty jump scare by interacting with a TV at just the wrong time.
- uncover a grim family history tied to an illegal underground ancient-artefact trade intertwined with murder and local myths.
- hit a climax where multiple myths, family sins, and earlier scenes suddenly click into one explanation all at once.
7Mouthwashing - The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Sep 26, 2024
In this game, you can…
- care for a maimed, limbless, mute captain while the rest of the ship keeps going.
- get chased by an invisible beast where sound and proximity are your only warning.
- run from a centipede baby through tight ship corridors until you finally lose it.
- ignore a crewmate's request for bedroom door locks, then still sign off on another crewmate's psych evaluation.
- relive the same incident through time jumps and perspective swaps, watching earlier scenes get recontextualized into something worse.
- push through simple puzzles that lead straight into scenes you can't avoid if you want to see what happens next.
- watch chapter transitions glitch, flash, and hard-cut so violently that the ship's reality feels unstable.
8Unheard - Voices of Crime - What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
Mar 28, 2019
In this game, you can…
- solve an entire crime by listening to voices and ambient sounds, with no characters to control and no visuals to rely on.
- start hearing one side of a phone call, then jump to another room to catch the other side and reveal who's really talking.
- track anonymous moving dots on a map, match them to voices, then shadow the people you've identified across every room they enter.
- rewind time, switch rooms on a floorplan, and hear the same moment from another angle until the conversation finally makes sense.
- follow one person through a scene, then rewind and follow someone else to catch the exact moment their stories secretly intersect.
- drop timestamped notes on the timeline so you can instantly jump back to a suspicious line, a confession, or a clue you heard earlier.
- untangle a single dense recording where multiple people try to steal one painting, and the real artwork's location keeps flipping as you replay it.
9Superliminal - Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Nov 5, 2020
In this game, you can…
- turn a tiny object into a huge ramp by moving it far away, then pick it up again and carry the big version.
- walk through a doorway and come out smaller or larger, using your own size as the solution instead of an object's.
- line up a flat picture-like surface so it snaps into a solid object you can grab and use.
- resize a quarter by holding it up to the sun, then drop it as a heavy, full-size object.
- use a door as a puzzle tool so the same doorway can spit you out in a different place depending on how you approach it.
- select an object and watch the room duplicate it, then solve puzzles by working with the copies.
- look away in an impossible space, then look back to find new paths where there wasn't a route before.
- get tricked into thinking you woke up, then have the game reset you back into the dream and keep going.
- download user-made levels and import custom 3D objects to experiment with forced-perspective puzzles beyond the campaign.
10No, I'm not a Human - WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
Sep 15, 2025
In this game, you can…
- drink kombucha to save your game, treating each jar like a scarce resource.
- pet, feed, and even use your cat strategically to prevent a murder.
- watch a knock at the door turn into a murder the same night someone arrives.
- decide who gets shelter when strangers knock at your door at night.
- examine eyes, hands, teeth, nails, and other body parts to spot Visitor signs, knowing no single clue is reliable.
- interrogate guests, catch contradictions in their stories, and decide whether they're human before your house gets too crowded.
- order groceries and cat food by phone, then wait for a delivery worker to bring it through the wasteland to your door.
- get forced into a seat-by-seat shuffle when a newcomer wants someone else's spot: kick one out, refuse the new arrival, or make room and deal with it.
